# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tao-xingzhi
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:09:13.960Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tao-xingzhi"
name: "Tao Xingzhi"
slug: "tao-xingzhi"
description: "Tao Xingzhi was a renowned Chinese educator and reformer in the Republic of China mainland era. He studied at Teachers College, Columbia University, and returned to China to champion progressive education. His career in China as a liberal educator was not derivative of John Dewey, as some have alleged, but creative and adaptive. He returned to China at a time when the American influence was zesty and self-confident, and his very name at that time (zhixing) meant \"knowledge-action,\" reflecting the catch-phrase of the Neo-Confucian philosopher Wang Yangming which implied that once knowledge (zhi) had been obtained, then action (xing) would be easy."
tagline: "Chinese educator (1891–1946)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tao_Xing-zhi.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Educators"
  slug: "educators"
profileType:
  name: "Educator"
  slug: "educator"
birthDate: "1891"
deathDate: "1946"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.56
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.986685333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 193
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%88_%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%BA%D8%B2%D9%87%D9%8A"
    title: "تاو زينغزهي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%88_%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%B2%D9%87%D9%89"
    title: "تاو زينجزهى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao_Xingzhi"
    title: "Tao Xingzhi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao_Xingzhi"
    title: "Tao Xingzhi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao_Xingzhi"
    title: "Tao Xingzhi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao_Xingzhi"
    title: "Tao Xingzhi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%99%B6%E8%A1%8C%E7%9F%A5"
    title: "陶行知"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%83%80%EC%98%A4%EC%8B%B1%EC%A6%88"
    title: "타오싱즈"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%99%B6%E8%A1%8C%E7%9F%A5"
    title: "陶行知"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105576"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump